Vincente Minnelli Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Coffee #Sugar #Cream

“West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#New York #Dancing #Style

“I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Theater #Born #Painter

“But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Surrealism

“Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Way #Surrealism #Painter

“Designing Woman was written for the screen.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Design

“I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#People #Awful #Tracy

“It's the story that counts.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Stories

“No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Stories

“It's always the story that interests me.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Directors #Stories #Interest

“The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Father #Book #Men

“Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Men #Stories #Sat

“I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Wonderful #Film

“Color can do anything that black-and-white can.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Black And White #White #Color

“Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Art #Cardinals

“But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Venezuela #Week #Fantastic

“But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Thinking #Important #Deals

“American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Song #Stars #Important

“I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Entertainment #Given #Theater

“I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Character #Color #Stories

“I learn new things all the time.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

“In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#New York #Ballet #Firsts

“I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

“I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Actors #Stories #Chemicals

“I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Stories #Vans

“I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Conscious #Hidden Things #Hundred

“If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Want

“Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Ideas

“If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.”
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Book #Competition #Mind